Rodarte Rewind on Presse Boutique

Looks like that Interview-style flashback profile of the Mulleavy sisters in yesterday's WWD had an edge of psychic to it, rather than just the fun and random we thought it was -
Beloved LA boutique, Presse, is reviving some archival Rodarte pieces to go up for sale on their site November 3rd, including at least one piece from their Spring 06 collection (a rough crystal necklace designed by their mother, whose maiden name was loaned to front the label), the first season that pretty much everyone actually knew who they were.
We can't imagine how much the seven handpicked pieces will go for - some of the pieces were never intended for sale, having only appeared on the runway. But anyway, it's kind of incredible that Rodarte literally did not even exist four years ago, and now they're having an archival sale like they're Valentino and they've reached the culmination of a decades-long career.
A sign of so much more to come? Or, perhaps, a little early in the game to claim such victory over time?
Which bizarrely reminds us, where's all the follow up news on Rochas?

For many, Rodarte's Fall 2012 prints were nothing more than a pretty arrangement of lines, dots and hand prints. But for Megan Davis, an indigenous Australian who heads up the University of New South Wales' Indigenous Law Centre and is also an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the prints were an insensitive appropriation of her Australian Aboriginal culture, Frockwriter is reporting.
The Mulleavy sisters were quite open about the fact that they were inspired by Australia. Kate Mulleavy told Newsweek/The Daily Beast's Robin Givhan that “the show was based on the rugged outback,” though the sisters admitted they had never been.
That fact was a sticking point for Davis.

Elle Fanning is the ideal Rodarte muse. An ingenue with more than a little buzz surrounding her performance in Somewhere, the actress wears the Mulleavy sisters' clothes as easily as a second skin.
Now she's gone and starred in a short firm for the label, reports WWD. “The Curve of Forgotten Things,” a collaboration between Kate and Laura, director Todd Cole, and the band Deerhunter, will debut on Nowness next Tuesday. Until then, savor these stills from the shoot.